de eohonczy



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. DE ROI-IONGZY.

SKATE.

9 Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. G. DE ROHONOZY.

i SKATE. v No. 462,279. Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

1 ETIIII. 2

INVENTEIR;

WITNESSES: mm 06 ify/{m W 3.], W ('3. /Z his diam-"ww- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEDEON DE ROHONOZY, OF BUDA-PESTH, AUSTRIA-HUN GARY.

SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,279, dated November 3, 1891.

Application filed January 29, 1890. Serial No. 338,539. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEDEON DE ROHONCZY, a subject of the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, residing at'Buda-Pesth, Hungary, have invented new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention has for its object an improved skate, which I call Columbus skate, and my principal aim is to simplify the fastening device as much as possible, to make it as convenient as feasible, and to obtain a reliable and unmovable connection of the shoe and the skate. The skates hitherto known present the disadvantage that the fastening ar rangementwill beloosened during the skating, which involves a danger for the skater or that it will render the skate too heavy.

The essential feature of the construction of my invention, as shown in annexed drawings, is that both the sole and the heel mechanism penetrate into the sole and the heel, whereby I obtain a rigid connection of shoe and skate.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a side view of the new skate; Fig. 2,21. bottom view. Fig. 3 shows the small plates adapted to the recesses in the shoes. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show different views of the heel and sole fastening mechanism.

Both in the sole and in the heel of the shoe I arrange a circular recess a, and I close these recesses with a metal plate I) for the sole-recess, and a plate 0 for the heel-recess, which plates I fasten on the outside with little screws or rivets. On the two elevated parts of the runner d, corresponding to the sole and the heel, I attach in a suitable manner, as by riveting or brazing, saddle-shaped supports 6' 6 These supports carry at their upper surfaces threaded studsf, ending in pins g, which are provided with rounded horizontal heads g 9 The direction of the head g is at right angles with the runner when the skate is fastened to the shoe, while the head 9 of the sole-fastening device is placed parallel to the runner.

\Vinged nuts 71 are arranged on the threaded studs f.

and tightened.

troduced into the sole-recess through the open-- ing 12 of the plate I) and pushed in the narrow extension of said opening I). The winged nuts on both ends are then screwed upward By this arrangement the skate is fastened to the shoe so as to preclude the slightest movement of the" skate, while, 011 the other hand, the subsequent loosening of the skate is also entirely avoided.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A skate consisting of a runner with two saddle-shaped supports 6' and c riveted or brazed thereto, these supports being made in one piece with threaded studs f, ending in pins g, provided with heads g and g which are introduced into the recesses a, arranged in the sole and the heel of the shoe through the plates 1) and 0, covering said recesses, and which heads are then placed in these recesses, so that by tightening the winged nuts h arranged on the studs fa secure fastening of the skate to the shoe is obtained, substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.

2. A skate consisting of a runner provided with two saddle-shaped supports 6 6 said supports having at their upper end threaded studs f, ending in pins provided with beads g 9 adapted to enter recesses in the heel and sole of a shoe, the direction of the head g being at right angles to the runner, and the head g parallel with the runner when the skate is fastened to the shoe, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEDEON DE ROIIONCZY.

Witn esses:

ZUNTsLosKY,

VIEsroR RUGITZ. 

